The Negative Effects Of Internet And Technology Addiction In Teens

INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY ADDICTION IN TEENS

Some activities done by teenagers are fun, and it becomes difficult for them to stop doing them. Addiction comes into play when the teens get the notion that they cannot live without the internet or even reduce the time they spend using the internet. Too much use of the web has negative impacts on social skills that are very crucial for future success in life. There has been a great concern by the parents and well-wishers on how to effectively control the use of the internet by the teenagers. Teens in the current society have relied on technology and the internet too much and as such losing the social skills that are imperative for success.

These are some of the ways the technology has made the youths weak in socialization:

Teenagers get too many friends on the internet, for instance, Facebook and get a notion that they do have helpful company. However, this becomes difficult in real life because the people they interact with on the internet, face to face and chatting are strangers. This is a fake friendship, and instead, one becomes even lonelier which is against his or her mental notion that they have a circle of friends. When there comes the need to get out and practically interact with people, internet addicts finds it hard because they have not been used to it.

It has paramount effects on the adolescents’ gray matter as proved in Voxel-based Morphometry method that gave a difference between adults who were not addicted to the internet and the addicted ones. Adolescents addicted to the Internet had lower gray matter count on the left cingulate cortex. The same was also observed on the left posterior, the left gyrus, and the left insula. This disorder presents an enormous public burden on health, and there is great need to enlighten people on how to prevent, treat and improve positively on matters of internet